The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-14
YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
1.-THE following items of news appeared in our
Second Edition of Sunday:l


Provisions Of the German Septenate BILL
BERLIN, March 1.-THE Official Gazette pub
fishes the army bill passed. The arrange
ments to put it into action on April are com
peted. New battaliors viii be formed as fourth
battallons in existing regiments. -Four new rail-
way companies will also be formed, two Prus-
sian, one Saxon and one Wurtemburg. Combined
they will constitute the third battalion OF the
Berlin railway regiment. hitherto composed OF
only two battalions The new pioneers form
fifth company in the pioneer battalion of the
Guards The official estimate. when the act IS
in full working order, practically increases the
army by ITO 900 men.
Yesterdays short debate on Herr Richters
motion TO meet the increased cost of the addi-
tional military force by an imperial income tax
failed to elicit any Ministerial information as TO
the governments financial plan. Herr Richter
proposed to tax all capital incomes above 6uUO
| marks at a graduated rate. beginning at per
cent. Nearly the whole House dsapproved the
proposal including several New German Lib
erals. 1t is reported that the deficit will be met
by loan. At the dinner given by Prince Bis
| marck yesterday to thes National Liberals. the
| question of taxation the leading topic OF
conversation 1t has since been reported that
| the spirit interests will be again attacked. The
three septennist groups appear ready to support
| any financial projects of the government
| The latest Centrist utterance, made by Herr
| Huene the first reading of the budget,
amounted to a declaration that the Center party
is willing accord an increase of revenue by in
| ment of any monopoly on spirits tobacco
| Under the insistence of Prince Bismarck, the
| Oberhaus commission will modify it's opposition
| to Bishop Kopp's amendments on the church
bill. The clerical press reports that an entente
has been established, based upon the acceptance
| of Bishop Kopp's motion limiting the power OF
| veto of the presidents of provinces The passage
| of the bill is now regarded as certain.
| The cessation of war reports, it is feared, is
only temporary. Russia's forbearance respect
ing Bulgaria is attributed in military circles to
her unreadiness for campaign. Since the
| movements oe troops toward the frontier began
it has been discovered that the Russia transport
| and ambulance services are both utterly unit
| to face a war with Austria. Letters to the
| Galician newspapers Struggled over the frontier.
desert the wretched state of the Russian troops.
| Army contractors conspiring with the
| commanders to defraud the exche9uer and in
tercept one-haif of every million roubles paid
out for the army. The result is that il the army
should suddenly be called into active service, it
would be decimated By starvation and typhus
| fever in a few weeks. In Warsaw the officers
have warned the Gear of the condition Of the
men. and measures have been taken to remedy
the evils but it will be impossible to get the ad
ministration reformed and the army ready for
several months Orders have been issued in
| Warsaw for the construction Of wooden bar
| racks in Radon, Lublin, Vladimir. Roveno and
| Berditschew. on the Galician frontier. The
greatest concentration of troops is taking place
at Roveno, where FIVE barracks are being built
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